NS4
Well-Known Member
I've started with the removable top section of the ship.
Still a WIP, but it's starting to take shape.
The graphite powder is easy enough to work with although it is quite harsh on the brushes.
My current brush bristles are down to half its original height!
In terms of technique, I am simply going in and adding shade to the crevices and to the inside areas of the raised panels (using the reference photos as a guide of course).
I then go back and clean up the "over brushing" on the adjacent panels with an eraser and add back highlights to selected kit parts and panel areas.
You can see from the original photos that this is exactly how it was done - and I'm getting identical results.
It is time consuming (this represents two days work so far), but as I suspected, it's quite fun!
More updates soon...
Still a WIP, but it's starting to take shape.
The graphite powder is easy enough to work with although it is quite harsh on the brushes.
My current brush bristles are down to half its original height!
In terms of technique, I am simply going in and adding shade to the crevices and to the inside areas of the raised panels (using the reference photos as a guide of course).
I then go back and clean up the "over brushing" on the adjacent panels with an eraser and add back highlights to selected kit parts and panel areas.
You can see from the original photos that this is exactly how it was done - and I'm getting identical results.
It is time consuming (this represents two days work so far), but as I suspected, it's quite fun!
More updates soon...